Capital Gains

The consultation on a capital gains tax charge on non-residents raises many questions

By John Endacott; second edition; £58.50; paperback; ; 146 pages; Claritax Books

J Rice (TC3273)

A look at the National Audit Office report on the landscape of tax breaks

J Blackwell (TC3243)

V and S Wagstaff (TC3183)

The government is set to extend its radical plan to remove the main residence election for non-UK residents, according to a leading tax specialist.

Adviser and author Kevin Slevin learned from the Treasury that a mooted shake-up of the capital gains tax regime relating to property will affect all homeowners from April 2015.

Advisers can be reassured by the Court of Appeal’s judgment in Mehjoo

DMWSHNZ v CRC, Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Division)

H Mehjoo v Harben Baker (a firm) and Harben Baker Ltd, Court of Appeal

A brother and sister own a property they inherited 20 years ago. It has been used by family members and more recently has been let out. To benefit her brother, the sister has suggested she could purchase his interest in the property

A woman wishes to buy a property in Florida. She and her husband are 50:50 shareholders of a limited company through which she carries on her trading business. The company is cash rich, so the client is considering a joint purchase of the property